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For those who don't opt in until the class is conditionally certified, that's who. In Greenstein v. Meredith Corp., 2013 WL 4028732 (D. Kan., Aug. 7, 2013), class counsel asked the District Court to equitably toll the limitations period for the eleven-month period from the time plaintiffs' motion for conditional certification was filed, and the time it was granted. Normally in FLSA cases the limitations period is not tolled until the class member opts into the conditionally certified class. Plaintiff argued that the long delay in resolving conditional certification justified equitable tolling. Judge Rogers disagreed, explaining that although the Tenth Circuit has not addressed the issue of equitable tolling in the context of an FLSA class, it usually applies that doctrine restrictively only where the defendant has actively misled the plaintiff respecting the cause of action, or in other extraordinary circumstances. Judge Rogers also determined that the factors applied by…